Quotes about Principle

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.